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Correctly, we might describe it as a series of exchanges of fire in which Israeli and Hizbollah forces intermittently engage each other and largely fire past each other at the civilian populations of Israel and thhe Lebanon.
But, as per the current BBC stock story (they seem to retain most of the story and change the occasional sentence every day), that's not actually what's happening:
More than 1,000 people, most of them civilians, have now been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government has said. More than 100 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
Which, given that I'm sure civilians would be easier to kill than heavily armoured and highly trained IDF personnel, I think makes it clear that Hizbollah are at least primarily focusing on military targets. Israel may or may not be trying to kill the t'rrrrists, but given that they're not that easy to single out from civilians with very large, expensive bombs, it probably makes quite little difference.
Anyway, my main reason for being in this thread is this disgustingly under-reported bit of news:
The Israeli bombing of a Lebanese power plant has triggered the Mediterranean's worst ever environmental catastrophe, with up to 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil spewing out into the sea and the sludge-covered bodies of dead fish littering the once pristine beaches.
... Which makes me feel horrible. I don't think there's much to discuss regarding the morality of the plant's bombing, but what I would like to know is whether there's anything that can be done to help? Israel is being less than helpful, to say the least:
The Israel navy also prohibited Lebanese and foreign officials from surveying the damage of the spill from Lebanon's territorial waters, the minister said. |
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